Get A New Hobby

Misinterpretation has been a hobby for people for centuries. Since Apollo 11, there has been a new wave of misinterpreting information that NASA has released, forming a unnecessary lack of trust.

An example is in 2011 a camera came back from the moon. It had been in the vacuous harsh terrain of the moon for two and a half years with an average deep freeze of -259 C with no access to nutrients. Scientists found 50 to 100 microbes on the camera. While theorists were quick to shout that there was life on the moon, NASA was hiding a dirty little secret. MSNBC and Space.com revealed in an article that their clean room educate had been less than satisfactory; their scrub tails were above the examination table, leaving room for particles to fall out.

There has also been some hype about finding microbes on mars. National Geographic's article "Life on Mars Found by NASA's Viking Mission" said that the experiment was martian soil was scooped up and mixed with nutrients and radio active carbon atoms. The radio active molecules jumped from 50 or 60, normal background radiation, to 10,000, which was confirmed by one of the project members neurobiologists from the University of Southern California and former NASA space shuttle project director. Although after he said that life on Mars is possible, the other two experiments, that were conducted the same way, did not back this data up. The data alone that revealed that microbes were found fueled theorists with fire that something was missing, not concluding that the microbes maybe have come from earth.

Alex Seitz-Wald, writer of "Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories", explains that people hate randomness. It is much easier to believe in a conspiracy because it gives people a sense on control. Sander van der Linden in " The Moon Landing was Faked!!! - Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories" says that people believe in conspiracy theories because they sense powerlessness, uncertainty, and a lack of general agency of control. Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic Magasays, "someone who believes in a significant number of conspiracy theories would naturally begin to see authorities as fundamentally deceptive." Conspiracy theories are used as a comforting agent to many people. Linden said that the thought of climate change to some people was too emotionally distressing, and that a conspiracy theory was a more convient option psychologically. Even in a situation like Apollo 11, where everything went right, something must have gone wrong.

Often conspiracy theorists use confirmation bias, remembering the hits and dismissing the misses, as flimsy evidence for their theories. Where there are people scrutinizing evidence only looking for the hits, there will be believers. Therefor, when moon hoax believers are looking for evidence, they find "evidence" that may not be scientifically or logically proven. For example, in one of the photographs from Apollo 11 there are no stars in the sky. Instead of thinking about the technology used they are quick to say that NASA forgot to add them, and that the picture was faked. Many also fall under the fundamental attribution error, which is the tendency to overestimate the action of other as being intentional instead of random circumstances. A recent study from Kent revealed that if a person already believes in one conspiracy, they are likely to believe in another even if it contradictory. Some participants in this study believed that Osama bin Ladin is still alive while also believing that he had died before the invasion even took place. Another study by Stephan Lewandowsky said that there is a correlation between conspiracy theories and a rejection of science, for example HIV causes AIDS.

There are people who have dedicated a good part of their careers to 'debunking' the moon landings. David Percy, an associate of the Royal Photographic Society does not disclose where he got the photographs from but claims that the photographs are laced with deliberate mistakes. Marcus Allen is another that believes that man did not go to the moon because the suits were not made to protect from radiation, and many of the photos have shadows where much detail can be seen in the darkened parts. He also says that many people believe because they want to, not because there was enough proof. Simple logical thinking shows that these remarks are less than satisfactory to be concrete evidence that the moon landing was a hoax. These people are standing in the shadow of the mountain of evidence piled against them. The time they expensed on disproving reality is ridiculous and they need to find a new hobby.

Richard C. Hoagland

Post Apollo, Hoagland worked at Goddard Spacecraft Center and was a Science Advisor to Walter Cronkite. He also informed CBS on the Moon and Mars during the Apollo Program. After the in depth involvement in NASA, he now oversees The Enterprise Mission that watches NASA and is trying to find all the hidden facts that are unknown to the American people.

In Dark Mission, he cites the Natioinal Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. He points out that even though NASA is specifically a civillian employer, it is also cited as a defense system. He sites other charter such as the Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs overall hinting that more is to come, and that these things seem ominous. Although the citations don't line up every well, it is setting the stage for a much larger debate that is bound to knock your socks off.

Soon after there is a slide show with multiple sentences that train off above such as "What if.... the astronauts you knew so well.... were actually beholden to a much higher authority.... that you never knew about?" It goes on to show different pictures of Americans and claims that they have dark pasts, like a cheep novel's first chapter he's picking up the suspense that will keep a reader guessing at what's to come. Then instantly he flashes to men connected with the moon landing also covered up JFK's death.

When the Apollo mission was in full swing, Hoagland claims that the astronauts were informed that there were "glass-like" structures on the moon that they needed to find. He also claims that the astronauts didn't just bring back rocks, but samples of the alien technology that they found. Apparently they photographed these glass structures and were hidden for thirty years.

If we step back for a moment, let's just think about what's going on.The entirety of the moon landing was filmed and broadcasted on live television. This broadcast never cut out or was inconsistent, just grainy. There was not a grand unveiling of new pictures that came from NASA 30 years after Apollo 11 launched. This would have happen in a much greater range than the popular media. If more people thought these were credible photographs, then more would have credited NASA with their "achievement" with the "new technology" they harnessed. Although Hoagland says that aliens artifacts are being revealed on official NASA websites, fails to discuss in detail what these artifacts are and exactly where someone can find this NASA sponsored site.

President Kennedy's who, according to Hoagland's source, was "totally disinterested in space," was also the one to ask for man to be on the moon by the end of the decade. A few months before his death he asked the Soviet Union if they would be interested in a "joint U.S./USSR lunar expedition." Because of this statement the conciliation was that if it was really about beating Russia, why did President Kennedy ask? Obviously because there was aliens involved and there was a hidden agenda to harness their technological power. Forget about world peace.

In short, Hoagland in consumed with the thought of lies streaming from NASA for the past 50 years. After misinterpreting real information, he is not only convinced that there is or was alien life on the moon, but that the death of JFK was actually caused by the lunar race. He has a complete distrust in NASA, and is able to broadcast in the popular media which can be host to many deceptive minds. Hoagland needs to get a new hobby.

The Masses

The moon landings were not a hoax, and that is evident to the 400,000 people who worked on Apollo 11 alone. According to the Air and Space Magazine, there were broken marriages, crushing stress, and according to more than one doctor in Cape Canaveral, there was a heightened level of ulcers even among children in response to the space race. In the past 40 years not credible person who worked on the space mission said that it was all a lie. George Alexander, the science editor of 'Newsweek', said that he and a few thousand other reporters covered the Apollo 11 mision. Between the construction of the Kennedy Space Center, and the work done in Huston and California and all the people associate with the launch, there was no way a hoax could be developed around it. Some hoax believers said that the ones who wanted to come forward were the ones that were killed. To that Alexander said, "You couldn't kill that many people and not keep it hidden.